One-to-One Pilates
Whether you’re recovering from injury, looking to improve your everyday movement, or preparing for elite competition, one-to-one Pilates gives you dedicated time and expertise to move you toward a specific goal.
We are a mindful movement studio, working with our clients holistically to help them find balance and strength in both mind and body. We’ll focus on breath work, building strength, and resilience, unwinding old movement patterns that no longer serve us, and helping you achieve your goals so that your Pilates practice will radiate out positively into all aspects of your life. If you feel our approach will benefit your wellbeing, please get in touch.
One-to-ones are available Tuesday to Friday during the daytime.
Experience the power of one-to-one Pilates in the safe and welcoming space of our fully equipped, peaceful studio in central Shrewsbury.
Feel reformed, restored, refreshed.
With the full range of Pilates equipment, including the Reformer, Chair, and Ladder Barrel at our disposal, we’ll ensure your movements are supported or challenged in the way that best suits you. Be encouraged to explore what your body loves as well as what it needs. Absorb the positive energy and peaceful studio vibes, and walk out feeling reformed, restored, and refreshed.
If you have never done Pilates before and don’t know what it’s all about please read the article below to see if it’s for you before you get in touch.
Benefits of One-to-One Pilates with Lauren
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Achieve your goals
We'll begin with a movement assessment so that we can prescribe exercises just for you, this means you'll achieve your goals more quickly.
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Supporting you all the way
No worrying if you're 'doing it right', we're here to guide and support you the whole way.
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Time for you
Invest an hour in self-care, where you can focus just on you and your body.
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Feel stronger, longer, and more flexible
In your one-to-one session, you'll use the Pilates apparatus which will help you feel stronger, longer, and more flexible.
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Rehabilitation and recovery
We are experienced in working with rehabilitation so if you're injured or recently had surgery we can help you in your recovery.
Our Pilates studio equipment
We’re a fully equipped dedicated Pilates Studio that gives us almost unending possibilities for finding and focusing movement in the smallest of muscles, which makes you feel taller, stronger, and more centered. Here’s an introduction to some of the equipment we use on the daily.
REFORMER
Working your body in a totally unique way where you'll push and pull against spring tension which can both support and challenge movements. There are literally hundreds of variations of movement from lying down through to standing on the reformer. Using the reformer you can expect to feel stronger and more flexible and to feel energised. Clients always tell us they feel 2 inches taller after a session on the reformer and sometimes they look it too!
LADDER BARREL
The ladder barrel is a great piece of equipment to counterbalance the effects of modern working life slumping over computers and phones. Its rounded shape means that it gives us that all-important feedback as to ‘how’ to arch our back and it gives us a shape in which we can mold ourselves around.
THE WUNDA CHAIR
Even though exercises on the chair are generally more challenging than the ones performed lying on a reformer, certain design features mean that this doesn’t always have to be the case. The chair’s handle design, for example, allows the chair to be made more supportive for beginners or people with injuries. Like all of the apparatus it is incredibly versatile so each movement can be regressed or progressed depending on the person!
BALLS - PILATES, OVER, & SWISS
We use a variety of different balls in both classes and one-to-ones. Smaller ones like the overball (pictured) can be great for release work where muscle or connective tissue might be restricting your movement and the larger ones are brilliant for challenging both balance and stability.
FOAM ROLLER
Like the small balls we use the foam rollers for both release work and to challenge balance and stability. Lying on a foam roller and for example, trying to lift the opposite arm and leg is also a great way of ironing out any muscular imbalances as it encourages you to develop new movement patterns.
PILATES RING
AKA MAGIC OR FITNESS CIRCLE
The magic circle in Pilates is a circular resistance prop that we use in classes and one-to-one sessions. It’s designed to provide a variable amount of resistance depending on how hard it is being squeezed. It provides gentle to moderate resistance in an exercise and is mindfully integrated into the body to support or challenge you during exercises. This means it is usually used under gentle tension to activate certain muscles.
ONE-TO-ONE-PILATES
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our first session is an opportunity to get to know one another and decide if we’d like to work together. We’ll discuss any relevant injuries or health conditions, we’ll set some goals and Lauren will do a movement assessment with you so that your sessions are tailored to what your body needs. There’s no obligation to continue after this initial appointment if you don’t wish to.
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One-to-one sessions are available during the daytime, Tuesday - Friday.
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One-to-one Pilates sessions are one hour.
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One session is £60. After your first session, you can buy blocks of 5 and 10 sessions at a reduced rate.
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